Microsoft’s Mobile Maneuver
The software giant may finally have figured out how to crack the wireless business.
Say this much for Microsoft: It never gives up. A decade after it started flogging a shrunken-down version of Windows for electronic devices other than PCs, the Redmond (Wash.)-based software titan is finally making a meaningful mark on the vibrant market for mobile phones.
What’s going on here is that Microsoft has finally started to figure out the mobile industry — and to spot the places where it can exert the most leverage.